HTCycle products

After filling and closing one of the reactors, pressure and temperature on the biomass will be exerted. These constant externally managed process conditions lead to defined reaction mechanisms. In the search for the energetically most favorable state (principle of the smallest constraint (according to Le Chatelier)) and the first set of thermodynamics that the energy of a closed system is always constant, the biomass first dissolves completely and goes into a suspension with overlapping gas phases. Up to the end of the reaction, depending on the equilibrium reactions, temperatures, pressures, masses, pH values and intermediates change. When the energetically most favorable state and the optimum operating point are reached, the spherical HTC coal is formed by polymerization from the suspension phase.